CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
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Blu-ray Review: Cult-Ready Thriller ‘The Guest’ Comes Home
Submitted by NickHC on January 6, 2015 - 11:39amCHICAGO – As the classification of “cult hit” becomes a progressively mainstream notion considering the multitude of “The Room” screenings across our great nation every weekend or the universal quotability of “Troll 2,” “The Guest” arrives. It is a movie made with the degree of madness often found only at midnight, usually at film festivals, or during special events at indie movie houses like Chicago’s Music Box Theater.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 100 Pairs of Suburban Passes to ‘The Gambler’ With Mark Wahlberg
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on December 14, 2014 - 6:20pmCHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 100 pairs of advance-screening SUBURBAN CHICAGO movie passes up for grabs to the new film “The Gambler” starring Mark Wahlberg!
Film Review: Superlative ‘The Guest’ Returns a Soldier to Our Times
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 17, 2014 - 5:51pmCHICAGO – The essential killing machine to protect the Homeland hasn’t been invented yet. Or has it? Filmmakers Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett combine “The Terminator” with a perfect metaphor for perpetual war in a new release, “The Guest.”
Interview: Filmmaker Team Comes Together to Invite ‘The Guest’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 16, 2014 - 5:45pmCHICAGO – War is on the country’s mind once again, and in this week’s film releases, “The Guest” is coming to theaters. The main creative team behind it – lead actor Dan Stevens, screenwriter Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard – weave a tale of a soldier that metaphorically reminds us that something is wrong.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 25 Pairs of Passes to Sequel ‘Taken 2’ With Liam Neeson
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on September 27, 2012 - 10:35pmCHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 25 pairs of movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of the highly anticipated “Taken” sequel “Taken 2,” which stars Liam Neeson!
Liam Neeson Elevates Above-Average Action Movie ‘Taken’
Submitted by BrianTT on January 30, 2009 - 8:25amCHICAGO – Bringing the same screen presence and gravity that he has to more serious roles like those in “Schindler’s List” and “Kinsey,” Liam Neeson turns the relatively generic “Taken” into an above-average action movie that should prove a surprising alternative for movie goers looking for a break from Super Bowl coverage this weekend.
Slideshow: 8-Image Gallery For ‘Taken’ With Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace
Submitted by BrianTT on January 21, 2009 - 10:56amCHICAGO – This 8-image slideshow contains a selection of official press images from Twentieth Century Fox’s “Taken,” which opens stateside on Friday, January 30th, 2009.